August 2011

I can’t help it. I have an obsessive compulsion with 51 year-old “actors” who marry teenagers! And folks, let me tell you, these two do not disappoint. Case in point: Courtney Stodden’s Twitter feed. Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, because this thing is steamy!

What the heck is going on between Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith? Earlier in the week, seemingly out of nowhere, rumors of their marital troubles surfaced and spread rapidly. The two denied that they were separating, divorcing, or anything less than perfectly happy in their marriage. But alas, the plot thickens.

People stopped working! They compared their experiences! Everyone called home to compare more experiences! People frantically texted "OMG did you feel that?!," Twitter blew up, and productivity effectively ceased for the whole of the East Coast.

There's an interesting trend emerging in Hollywood that I'm going to dub the "relationship upgrade." It occurs when a little-known actor/dancer/C-lister in a long-term, seemingly solid relationship drops his non-famous partner for a mega-famous star. Are they upgrading, or rebounding?

What troubles me about Michelle Bachmann isn't that she wants to be submissive to her husband while he serves as head of their household; it's that she voices that opinion at all. It's one thing to believe something internally. It's another to, as a politician, purposefully share that opinion with the masses.

As if it isn't hard enough to tell friends what you really think of their wardrobe bomb, imagine the frustration of constantly being forced to say, "Honey, I'm just not sure that bubble/latex condom hat/bird's nest/meat dress/egg capsule/mysterious horn-like growth is really your thing."

You've probably heard some variation on the old expression, "Every relationship fails until one doesn't." Charming, no? This notion has got me thinking about a particularly loved Hollywood darling who can't seem to escape the stigma of failed relationships: Jennifer Aniston.